Monday, June 8, 1998 Last modified at 12:43 a.m. on Monday, June 8, 1998

Bettie Perry

Services for Bettie Rowena Perry, 69, of Lubbock will be at 2 p.m. Monday in W.W. Rix Chapel with the Rev. Lewis Johnson officiating.

Cremation will be in Resthaven Crematory under direction of Rix Funeral Directors.

She died Friday, June 5, 1998, in Methodist Hospital.

She was born April 5, 1929, in Portales, N.M. She graduated from Floyd, N.M., High School. She attended South Plains College and West Texas State University. She received a bachelor's degree in nursing and a master's degree in nursing, both from Texas Tech University. She was a member of Bethel Baptist Church in Portales, N.M., and she was a lifetime member of TOPS.

She was an OBGYN nurse at Reese Air Force Base for eight years and a Methodist Hospital for six years. She was an OBGYN nurse instructor at Methodist Hospital School of Nursing until retiring in 1992. A son, Kenneth, died in 1992.

Survivors include a son, Jack of Lubbock; her stepmother, Louise Thetford of Floyd, N.M.; a sister, Judy Tombleson of Lakewood, Calif.; and three grandchildren.